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Soul Repair: Miracle Enough for Me

"Here's mud in your eye." That's what she -- our regular contributor here -- would have called this sermon. But Joel Brown is classier than that. So he respects this story about Jesus from John 9:1-41 with a great deal of gravitas. It is, after all, about the possibility that just when Jesus is helping one blind guy see, he can strike a whole bunch more people blind -- the miracle of healing working backwards for those without eyes to see. Ouch.

At the top of the service, we listened to a piece of Anne Lamott's reading on NPR's This American Life, episode 104, in which she says she's seen "miracle enough for me." You can listen here.